Day: February 13, 2014

A wild boar caused panic Tuesday when it got into the middle of the seaside town of Garrucha and started wandering around. According to residents, it was spotted on Iglesias street and when approached legged it down a side street. Within minutes panic erupted as the large pig “rampaged” up and down streets, with people fleeing in unnecessary horror. Good fun was had by all,

The fourth best beach in Spain is Genovenses in the Cabo de Gata natural park, according to tourism website SkyScanner, which has been running a poll of users. The full list of the top 10 beaches in Spain can be found here.

Ana Pastor, the Minister for Development, today promised the Region of Murcia that by 2015 the AVE high speed train network will reach the capital city, and that it will reach the city centre via an underground tunnel.

Intereconomia TV, the rather rabidly right wing private TV channel, went quietly under today, and ceased national transmission. At midday today the signal went to a test card transmission nationwide without prior notice. With it went the national radio channels Radio Intereconomía & Radio Inter. A brief comunique from the company said that it will only be available on terrestrial TV in the cities of Madrid and Valencia, although it continues to broadcast on the Continue reading Intereconomia TV goes “pop”→

In brief: Probably, although they don’t admit to it. I got interested after no fewer than two people asked me today, so I thought I’d have a look around. The reason is because internet speed depends on two things: the infrastructure, and the number of people connected to it.

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The Spanish administration is again seeking to demolish a property belonging to an elderly British couple in the region of Andalusia even though Christine and Noel Payne, a retired couple in their seventies from Sussex, built their house with planning permission from the town hall of Albox in Andalusia. […]